80 Haven Quotes

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Famous Haven Quotes

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within... — Jimmy Buffett

Any port in a storm. — Scottish Proverbs

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson

Praise the sea; on shore remain. — John Florio

The home should be the treasure chest of living. - Le Corbusier

The home should be the treasure chest of living. — Le Corbusier

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. — Herman Melville

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is for. — English Proverbs

Many a ship is lost within sight of the harbour — Irish Proverbs

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore. — Saadi Shirazi

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. — Zig Ziglar

The sea hath fish for every man. — William Camden

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland. — Anne Frank

Short Haven Quotes

  • IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO. — Madam C. J. Walker
  • I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't. — Lucille Ball
  • If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. — Niels Bohr
  • If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it. — Zora Neale Hurston
  • If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
  • There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. — William Butler Yeats
  • If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough. — Phyllis Diller
  • It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done. — Billie Joe Armstrong
  • If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. — Sophia Loren

Haven Image Quotes

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. - Yvonne Craig quote

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. — Yvonne Craig

Haven quote There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. - Rodney Dangerfield quote

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. — Rodney Dangerfield

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky quote

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. — Igor Stravinsky

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. - Steve Jobs quote

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. - Susan Sontag quote

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag

Haven quote The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. s with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Safe Haven Quotes

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. — Dave Brubeck

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. — Nicholas Sparks

Haven quote I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

A Grandmother is a safe haven. — Suzette Haden Elgin

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm. — George Osborne

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible — Nicholas Sparks

Haven quote If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito.
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito.

Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last. — Charles Wesley

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. — Iyanla Vanzant

I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. — Barack Obama

The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through It's because I haven't always been seen by you. — Paul Eluard

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More Haven Quotes

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. — Will Rogers

You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere. — Lauren Conrad

We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing. — DJ Khaled

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. — Lemmy Kilmister

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday. — Steve Maraboli

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. — Steve Jobs

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom. — James Connolly

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. — Langston Hughes

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind. — Neville Goddard

When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand. — Jack Dempsey

I've put myself in this position where I haven't set myself up with a Plan B. I don't have a safety net; it's all in. — G-Eazy

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there. — Helen Steiner Rice

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet. — Roald Dahl

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. — Will Smith

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. — Elif Safak

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. — Ann Landers

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. — Yves Saint Laurent

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me. — Haruki Murakami

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care. — Tyra Banks

Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried — Terry Fox

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile. — Frank Sinatra

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. — Georgia O'Keeffe

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor. — A. Philip Randolph

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. — Maria Callas

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. — Mark Udall

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment. — Richard Rohr

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't. — Jimmy Doolittle

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